September 13<\/p>\n
1229 \u2013 \u00d6gedei Khan, the 3rd son of Genghis Kahn, is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire<\/p>\n
1501 \u2013 Italian Renaissance: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.<\/p>\n
1541 \u2013 After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to begin his reformation of the church<\/p>\n
1609 \u2013 Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him \u2013 the Hudson River.<\/p>\n
1788 \u2013 The Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the nation’s temporary capital.<\/p>\n
1814 \u2013 Observing, through the night, the battle against the British attempt to capture Baltimore, Francis Scott Key composes his poem “Defence of Fort McHenry<\/em>“, which is later set to music and becomes the national anthem.<\/p>\n 1847 \u2013 During the final assault on Chapultepec Castle, 6 Mexican military cadets known as Ni\u00f1os H\u00e9roes<\/em> refuse to surrender and die in its defense as U.S. troops under General Winfield Scott capture Mexico City<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013\u00a0 At the Best Farm, outside Frederick, Maryland, Union Corporal Barton W. Mitchell of the 27th Indiana Volunteers finds a copy of General Robert E. Lee’s Special Order 191, detailing upcoming battle plans. Union forces use this knowledge to good effect in engaging Confederate forces at Antietam and the South Mountain area in Maryland. Later, author Harry Turtledove writes an alternate history novel – How Few Remain<\/em> – where the plans are not intercepted, and how that would likely have changed not just the outcome of the war, and U.S.\/C.S. history, but world history.<\/p>\n 1898 \u2013 Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.<\/p>\n 1899 \u2013 Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 On the second day of the Battle of Edson’s Ridge in the Guadalcanal Campaign, U.S. Marines successfully defeat attacks, with heavy losses inflicted on the Japanese forces.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013 Margaret Chase Smith is elected United States senator becoming the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.<\/p>\n 1956 \u2013 The IBM 305 RAMAC computer is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 New York State police and National Guardsmen storm Attica Prison to quell a prison revolt.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 General Motors introduces Diesel engines for the first time in passenger vehicle models Delta 88, Oldsmobile 98, and Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser.<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Oslo Accords at the White House granting limited Palestinian autonomy.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 Former Alabama Governor George Wallace dies at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 Former President of Columbia, Julio C\u00e9sar Turbay Ayala dies in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 Hurricane Ike<\/em> makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, killing 214 people and causing $38 Billion in damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 1 person is killed, 25 are injured, and 40 homes are destroyed when excessive pressure in natural gas lines owned by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts causes fires and explosions in the Merrimack Valley, in Massachusetts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 13 1229 \u2013 \u00d6gedei Khan, the 3rd son of Genghis Kahn, is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire 1501 \u2013 Italian Renaissance: Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David. 1541 \u2013 After three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to begin his reformation of the church 1609 \u2013 Henry Hudson reaches … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59524"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95949,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59524\/revisions\/95949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}